Few races for the final of the championship, most talked news of the weekend at Mid-Ohio are the come back of Oriol Serviá to the team Panther Racing #4 replaces Briscoe and Alex Tagliani Canadian driver with the # 98 Barracuda Racing will be replaced by the Italian Luca Filippi in his debut in the category. In Dayle Coney Racing will race the rookie driver Davison (V8 driver) in his indycar debut at Mid Ohio. There will be a total of 24 cars for the race

During the test before the race the fastest driver was Reay, the most consistent teams has been the teams who have more pilots in their structures, this season has been an advantage to have more data to understand the tires Penske and Andretti for reaching the best results. However in recent races Ganassi, with their good work, are getting closer to the lead.

As to the first free today and making official contact within the race the fastest drivers were the Ganassi team Dixon and Franchitti followed by Reay (fastest in the test) and Pagenaud. Complete top5 Hinchcliffe (Penske). Results with minimal differences. Fifteen pilots in the same second.
The championship standings, before the start of this race, the fight is still very close, is as follows:

1. Castroneves 425

2. Dixon 396

3. Reay 356

4. Andretti 355

5. Pagenaud 309

 

Free practice 1:

Pos Driver Time GAP Laps
1 Scott Dixon 1:05.7096 — 12
2 Dario Franchitti 1:05.7375 0.0279 11
3 Ryan Hunter-Reay 1:06.0464 0.3368 11
4 Simon Pagenaud 1:06.1308 0.4212 15
5 James Hinchcliffe 1:06.2018 0.4922 13
6 Justin Wilson 1:06.2407 0.5311 15
7 Marco Andretti 1:06.2911 0.5815 11
8 Tristan Vautier 1:06.3446 0.6350 22
9 Helio Castroneves 1:06.4224 0.7128 15
10 Will Power 1:06.4622 0.7526 16
11 Graham Rahal 1:06.5311 0.8215 22
12 EJ Viso 1:06.5319 0.8223 10
13 Josef Newgarden 1:06.5791 0.8695 16
14 Sebastien Bourdais 1:06.6047 0.8951 13
15 Charlie Kimball 1:06.6970 0.9874 12
16 Sebastian Saavedra 1:06.7827 1.0731 20
17 Tony Kanaan 1:06.7978 1.0882 14
18 Simona De Silvestro 1:06.8099 1.1003 15
19 Luca Filippi 1:06.8836 1.1740 13
20 Oriol Servia 1:06.9481 1.2385 14
21 James Davison 1:07.0919 1.3823 24
22 James Jakes 1:07.3270 1.6174 14
23 Ed Carpenter 1:07.6823 1.9727 26
24 Takuma Sato 1:08.1527 2.4431 13

 

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